Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Suggestion: The game needs random combat encounters

Hello there.

First of all, I'm at final of act 1 and the game is amazing. Top 10 easy of Mi favourite games, and I'm a 37-38 old school gamer.

At the moment only miss random encounters of combat. The combat in the game is a lot of fun (although there are people who complain about the turn system) but I think that it is not enough.

I know there are people who want to role-play and combat doesn't interest them as much, but there are a lot of people like me who need a little more action.

Nor do I ask for a mass effect, I think you get what I mean.

Sorry for my English.

Best regards from Spain

I don't think Larian is into that. However, if it was added, I think we need to worry about XP. I don't think it is fun to max out level, but you can max out by the start of act 3. Maybe that's the design intention; I don't know. If you add additional encounters (with additional xp) I think you also need to slow down xp progression. If I had the option, I would slow it down already to avoid reaching max level too early.

This has been raised very very often but apparently never considered, e.g. here: https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=760211&page=4

The game needs INTERESTING random encounters, because most people think of RE and go NO NO NO!!! It always badly implemented.

I would not call them random encounters, but more like MWIE : Minor World Immersion Encounters. And make these not turn base but more like the old games!

I think this would be amazing to flesh out more that Larian style zone theme park like Faerun world more. Combat is dreadfully slow pace. I would argue the older games are WAY more strategic due to the constant positioning and re-positioning. Move in / out , and mixed with that slight chaotic element of not knowing exactly how things will turn out...is so much more fun, imho.

If that first ship area were a dungeon in BG2, it would be over in a couple minutes just due to the faster combat...which actually fits the urgency and the world! (why I still love that system...).
In BG3 I would make the imp and test subjects encounters real time, and that last part turn based. For example as a way to balance urgency/fast gameplay/ and strategic turn gameplay during bigger fights.

Having that fast pace combat mixed in with the regular turn base zones I think could work out great. Anyways, I've been arguing that and interesting random encounters for 3 years. Larian pretty much made up their minds on what they want the sequel to BG2 be.

And according to that latest patch, what people want it seems is a magic mirror to be able to change your look. So there are your priorities right there. Oh and bug fixes + restored content. I doubt we will get any kind of game changing content for a while. And 99% of MODS right now are either CHEATS or CHEESE. So wouhou to that and people saying, "ill be fineeeee, youll have a MOD for that....".

PF:WotR did it quite well - you get random encounters during the night.

Gawd, NO!!

The game already has way too much pointless combat.

When I opened the post, I was playing in act 1. In Act 1 there are some empty areas that could have encounters.

I'm act 2 encounters are proporcionally good.